Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-02-08
the use of his underpinning, and he may
have to undergo amputation. His case is

the use of his underpinning, and he ma
nave to undergo amputation. His case
very serious.
At Pease's hotel all the patients were re
ported improving, even to Mrs. Murphy Q
Boston, who was in danger of losing her rea
son yesterday. She was on her way to Bur
llngton, where she intended to go to work TO
James Stone, hotel keeper, who was alst
| on the Inflated train and whose body is sup
posed to be somewhere in the wreck or river
Kitty Cahill of 2 Bowdoin street, Boston, il
growing better. At Paine's farmhouse Puel
ota, the Frenchman, was reported sinking
and weak with bare chance for his life
Wilcox, the drover of Malone, N. Y, was the
worst case and but little hopes were enter
tanned for his recovery. Thus it is probable
that couple or more of the patients now
being cared for here may die, thus still fur,
Their increasing the list of fatalities.
The identity of the remains of s. S. West
colt, supposed at first to belong at Burling-
ton, VT, was settled to-day beyond perad-
venture. 1t now appears that during the
past two years at least Westcott has resided
In New York city, and on the strength of a
telegram received this morning from P. D.
Pike the body was shipped in the care of
that gentleman to that city. The boy who
died in Westcott's arms is still unidentified,
and remains here. Doubts are entertained
that the boy was Westcott's son. The boy
Joseph Maigret, who saw his father burned to
death, has been cared for at the Junction
House under the eye Of Superintendent Foss
To day the little fellow was furnished with
suitable clothing and in charge of a railroad
official was taken to relatives who have ex
pressed desire to take him in charge.
Among the kilograms received to day was
one signed "Mrs. w. S. Butler of New
York, asking if the body of W. S. Butler
had been found in the wreck. Mrs. Butler
stated that Butler was on the train and it is
presumed that he was on his way to the
Montreal carnival. The officials could not
furnish any definite reply as there was moth
ing among the effects found bearing the
name of Butler If Butler was on the train
it is thought that his body may be among
the twenty four unrecognized in the morgue
Among the saved much of interest concern,
ing their experiences is told. A Frenchman
named Gabel went forward from the day
coach for quiet smoke just as the train left
this point. Gabel to day attributed his es-
cape to the use of tobacco. Prev, of Provi-
dence, also escaped through his love for the
weed. salesman for Jordan, Marsh &
Co. of Boston, who escaped recently in
a smash up on the tunnel route at
the junction, went to enjoy the
seciability of ''T. Dr. He, too, claims that
his escape was due to the use of the weed
William Devineau of Winooski, Vt, was in
the day coach with his wife, but at the
Junction he left the partner of his Joys to
look after dog he was taking home and
which was tied up in the baggage car. Dew
ineau escaped and his wife persisted Her
body is supposed to be either among those
unidentified at the morgue or still in the
wreck. The husband is we'll nigh crazy over
the loss of his wife
Early this forenoon the railroad commits
sioners. Ex-Governor Pingree chairman,
Colonel Fletcher and Senator Watson, visit
ed the scene of the wreck. The broken rail
and the wheels of the car that first went IF
the track and the wrenched or broken axls
held hearing at the Junction hotel at three
o'clock this afternoon when Engineer Pierce
and Brakeman George Parker gave their ex-
perience. Parker told in full his
story of how he made his flying leap with
safety from the train. A gang of fifty men
are at work on a new bridge and the frame
work is already up from the abutments at
either end. At no time todaY were there
less than one thousand people pressing
against the ropes which surrounded the de-
bIis. In some portions of the rivers width
there are two solid sections of ice. Owing
to a sudden thaw about two weeks ago the
river rose rapidly at this point, covering the
solid first ice to depth of three or four feet
with water. In some places parts of the
wreck went through one section of the ice
only and others through both. Others did
not go through the first layer. It is possible
that bodies may be found under the first
layer of ice. Selectman Hazen says that
n his opinion the bodies of forty-six
persons killed have thus far been taken
from the wreck although not by actual count.
Isaac Gates, undertaken, says thirty-two
bodies have been brought to his care, seven
If which have been identified and removed
with perhaps five more susceptible of idsnti-
ication. The funeral of Miss Nancy Dunbar,
,ne of the victims, took place this aft rnoon
rom the residence of her brother in Somer-
7ille.
Albert L. Murdock, of Boston, writes to
;hs Transcript as follows: ''There are at
he patent Office, Washington, three hundred
models for heating railroad Garland not
,ne adopted by any road in the United States
md never will be until public opinion forces
hem to action. will deposit five hundred
dollars in bank on notice of anyone equip
ping train of five cars and after running
hree months if accepted by the railroad
and an order given to equip twenty
i've cars the sum shall be payable on presen-
alton of contract to the inventor of the firsl
method that is accepted"